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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 6: (search)
ership in our patriotic army, will vindicate on the field an equal title with his to gratitude and admiration, and with sentiments of the utmost regard, I am, sir, ever Your obedient and humble servant, John A. Andrew, Governor of Massachusetts. No words of ours can add to the respect and esteem with which General Lander was held by the people of this Commonwealth; and no words of eulogy can be added which would give significance and strength to the letter we have just quoted. March 28.—The Governor wrote to Mr. Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, by which it appears that Mr. Fox had sent to the Governor a copy of a letter taken out of a pocket of a secesh pea-jacket by Commodore D. D. Porter, commanding the fleet at the mouth of the Mississippi River, and which related to a Mrs. Sarah A. Blich, of Holmes Hole, who, it appeared, had been giving information to the rebels at New Orleans. Inquiry was made by the Governor, and it was ascertained that a person of that name
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 8: (search)
er to which it related; that the consideration of it was not a new thing; in many cases, he had gone beyond the letter of the law in his endeavors to prevent such men from being commissioned; that he would not knowingly commission a person so offending. It was his desire to have the soldiers of Massachusetts surrounded by the best influences in the camp and in the field; and that he would gladly avail himself of advice given by respectable parties in the selection of officers. On the 28th of March, he wrote to Colonel Frank E. Howe, in New York, to recommend to the consideration of General Ullman, who was authorized to raise a colored brigade in the South, James Miller, of Salem, as a proper person to receive a commission. He was then serving in our Fiftieth Regiment, in the Department of the Gulf. Mr. Miller, he says, is the eldest grandson of General Miller, of the war of 1812,— the hero of Lundy's Lane. On the 31st of March, he wrote to Colonel Maggi, commanding our Thirty-